File consists of correspondence with people who have surnames from Chamberlain to Gyte, related to the seminar on, "Prenatal Corticosteroids for Reducing Morbidity and Mortality After Preterm Birth", which was held at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, on 15 June 2004. The seminar was part of the Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine meetings also known as the Witness Seminars. The transcript of this seminar was published as Volume 25 of the Witness Seminar series, L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey (editors), Prenatal Corticosteroids for Reducing Morbidity and Mortality After Preterm Birth, (London: Wellcome Trust, 2005).
Details of the seminar correspondence, primarily between the chair (Dr Edmund Hey), organisers of the meeting (Sir Iain Chalmers and Dr Daphne Christie), editors of the published transcript (L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey) and others include:
Detailed information for the seminar, commentary on the transcripts and feedback on the meeting from participants.
Correspondence with those not listed as participants including; Professor Geoffrey Chamberlain (apologies); Dr Michael Chew; Professor John Coghlan; Professor Brian Cooke; Dr Stuart Dalziel; Dr Clive Dash (apologies) who provided a paper titled, "Protocol for the use of Corticosteroids in the Prevention of Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Premature Infants" which appeared as Appendix 5 in the published volume and also provided comments on the transcript; Dr Pamela Davies (apologies); Professor Sir Liam Donaldson (apologies); Professor James Drife (apologies); Dr Sheila Duncan (attendee); Professor Peter Dunn (apologies); Dr Jonathan Grant (apologies); Sir John Muir Gray (apologies); and Dr Selina Gray.